Part names

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> After upgrading to a reasonably recent version
> (1.3.151) of Lily I started getting warnings on
> all my scores:
> 
> --------
> warning: Identifier should have alphabetic
> characters only:
> Soprano1
>      = \notes \context Voice = $Soprano1 { ... }
> --------
> 
> This doesn't prevent the scores compiling and the
> dvi file being generated, but is this warning
> likely to turn into an error at some future
> upgrade?

I'm not really sure, but that might very well be possible.
 
> Is there really a requirement for part names to be
> alphabetic only? I can easily rename the parts to
> SopranoI, SopranoII etc. but with a good dozen
> scores (some consisting of multiple movements) I'd
> rather not have to. 

We have an automated conversion tool that does this automatically for
you.

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